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Currently, when opening a board in the Miro desktop app, any embedded YouTube or even Vimeo video that is visible on screen starts playing automatically. This behavior is unwanted and distracting. Multiple users have reported this issue, and reinstalling the app doesn’t fix it (source). It seems to affect only the desktop app — not the browser version or collaborators viewing the board online.
Happens not only at the moment you load a board. One given board can remain “silent” for hors or days and suddenly start playing one or several of the embedded videos at the same time.
In my case I’m using MacOSX version of the Miro desktop app.

Impact:

  • Disrupts focus and collaboration

  • Causes unexpected audio/video playback

  • Poor user experience, especially on boards with multiple videos

User need:
An option (checkbox or global setting) to disable auto-play of embedded videos when loading a board, to avoid unintended playback.

 

Hi ​@Philippe BRIERE 

Thanks so much for taking the time to submit this idea. Our team will review this and it’s open for votes and comments. 

For those coming across this idea, if you feel this would be helpful for you or your business, please be sure to vote for it and leave a comment about your use case to help our team scope this request!

Thank you again for helping make Miro better!

Hi, I have to support the need to fix this bug - all of our boarders contain videos from Vimeo and sometimes five videos can run at once, each on a different open board. 

It's very disruptive and even trying to embed a video as an embed (and checking run mute in Vimeo settings and no autoplay doesn't work correctly).

Thanks for the solution.

Hello. The same problem appears for me when planning social media content for my work. All embedded TikTok-videos start playing whenever I open my boards (both in the desktop app and Safari).

This makes my entire board a mess sadly, but I’m also left confused when they stop playing, considering all front covers for the embedded videos disappear. It’s impossible to work with this when I have hundreds of TikTok references in my board.

Miro, please fix this and introduce a ‘turn-off’ button for auto-playing videos. If not, I’m afraid I have to end my subscription and find another program to use. 

 

I absolutely support the ugrent need to fix this issue. If I leave the MIRO desctop app open, it can suddenly start playing all Vimeo videos at once, causing an audio chaos if the speakers are on. Actually, I have already developed a feeling that it could happen anytime and have to keep the sound off or shut down MIRO app when I don’t want such an unexpected sound explosion to happen.

btw. it wasn’t like this before, it started around 3 monts ago

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